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Show Commandment Reveal Youth Very Critical By RUTH MII.I.F.TT On first thought It seems a bit ludicrous to think of a group of col-leg col-leg students voting on the worth of the ten commandments as rules We, the Women for modern living. mat happened the other day at New York university. univer-sity. But It U Interesting to hear how the commandments stood up under so much "free thought." "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother" Is just as good a rule today a it was thousands of years ago. all but twelve of the 1485 students stu-dents agreed. Many of the "Jury." however, questioned the soundness of the commandments dealing with man's attitude toward Cod and the rules for sex conduct. Not a single commandment waJ endorsed by every student. A few even took expectlon to "thou shalt not kill" and "thou shalt not steal" But on the whole the student decided that the old commandments are pretty good rules to follow. At least they didn't have any better suggestions. On irst thought mothers and Tathers wilTprobably either laugh or grow indignant about a group of inexperienced young people having the nerve to condemn or condone the respected ten commandments. Their attitude will depend largely on whether they have more humor than religion, or the other way around. But if they give the religious poll a second thought, they will see that those young people were simply putting down on paper the criticisms of the commandment that the world is busy living. Why is it worse or more absurd for Junior to say he thinks that "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's neigh-bor's wife" is outmoded than for his father to tell the world that he is planning to marry Mrs. So-and-so just as soon as she gets a divorce? Don't smile too wisely at the college col-lege students. Or don't worry for fear they are headed straight for perdition. They at least gave the ten commandments a few minutes of serious thought And that's something. some-thing. - |